US journalist, 25, is thrown in hellhole Zimbabwe jail and faces 20 years for tweet mocking Mugabe

               




US journalist, 25, is thrown in hellhole Zimbabwe jail and faces 20 years for tweet mocking Mugabedespite someone ELSE admitting it was them and CONTINUING to insult the 'goblin' president while she is behind bars

Martha O'Donovan was arrested in the Zimbabwean capital Harare on Friday Police say she tweeted 'we are being led by a sick and selfish man' on October 11It came from a Twitter user who tweets under the handle @matigaryThe post included a photograph of Mugabe, 93, which suggested he was using a catheterOfficials say they tracked its IP address to O'Donovan's home in Zimbabwe She was denied bail on Saturday morning and was remanded in custody   As she sat in jail, @matigary continued to tweet and mock MugabeThey joked that she was only being held because she is foreign in Mugabe's anti-white Zimbabwe O'Donovan is from New Jersey and studied human rights in Africa at NYU

An American woman was unceremoniously thrown in jail in Zimbabwe on Saturday because police say she is behind a Twitter account which mocks the country's president even though someone else has taken credit for it and continues to goad the leader from it.

Martha O'Donovan, 25, was arrested on Friday morning at her home in Harare, Zimbabwe, by police who accused her of being behind a tweet posted by anonymous Twitter user @matigary on October 11.

The tweet labeled Mugabe, 93, a 'selfish and sick' man and suggested he was relying on a catheter.

Police claim they traced its IP address to her home and they say she is behind the entire account despite the fact that it was still active on Saturday even after she was thrown in jail.

'LOL they think she is me,' said one of the tweets. They also joked that they had tried to turn themselves in but that the authorities want to keep O'Donovan behind bars because she is foreign.

Elsewhere they joked that they had tried to turn themselves in but that the authorities want to keep O'Donovan behind bars because she is foreign.

O'Donovan is a producer for the political satire TV network Magamba and who has studied human rights across Africa for years.

She is likely being held in one of two, notoriously grotty prisons - Chikurubi or Harare Central. Her representatives have not confirmed which but they plan to go to the high court on Monday to appeal her jailing.








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